Early exposure to pesticides isn’t healthy for babies
The mainstream media inexplicably seems to downplay the links between chronic pesticide exposure and birth defects, but a new study is bringing this topic back into view. Applied pesticides don’t just impact farm-workers. They also take a toll on families who live within 2 miles of a farm that uses toxic pesticides, according to the latest research from the MIND Institute at University of California, Davis Medical Center. From birth defects to other developmental issues, early exposure to pesticides isn’t healthy for babies. What are the chemicals we’re exposing people to, and how do they work? The study cites three of the most commonly used agricultural pesticides in the past 50 years. These three classes of pesticides implicated in the study are: organophosphates, pyrethroids, and carbamates.